Doorposts of Redemption {Parshas Va'eschanan}

press okay good evening everyone is behind us and now we have sh ahead of us and now Begins the time of the month that is known as we're continuing our sh on which are generously sponsored by Dr mother and tonight's share is dedicated we have good news last week we mentioned that the mystery and the Majesty is now available in French so if you wanted to learn French look I'm going to teach you a few words okay L how do you say l in French e l o u l how about y Yim okay this is a perfect way to learn we learn French and you get the English also and you you can match it up okay um it's interesting that in the English I'm a rabbi and this I'm a RAV so I guess I'm on a higher level in France than I am here that's always how it is when they don't know you you know okay um tomorrow the Spanish Edition will be available so you can pick that up as well okay tonight I'm going to speak about uh subject that I'm very excited to share with you I want to begin by asking you a very personal question how raise your hand by show of hands how many of you walk through doorways just checking okay you walk through doorways okay just wanted to make sure so you all acknowledge that you had upon occasion walk through doorways the most well-known teaching of the ramban is found at the end of Paras where the ran tells us that that in the ancient times certain principles of Faith began to be forgotten they began to say either there was no creation by a Creator but the world came into being by its own instead of creation X nio something from nothing that the world always existed or some say no God created the world but he doesn't know what's happening in the world or maybe God knows but he doesn't care or maybe he cares but he and control various forms of heresy began to develop so Hashem needed to set the record straight and what he did was he demonstrated that he indeed is the creator of the World by changing the laws of nature at will God demonstrated that he indeed is the one who created the world he demonstrated he has knowledge how else would water turn to blood for an Egyptian and not for a uh Jew how else would wild animals attack only certain people and other people be saved how else would only certain firstborn die and others remain alive so God demonstrated control knowledge and ability and God also demonstrated that he communicates with man because he told someone before to warn the king that it's going to happen so all of the great principles of the TOA creation for knowledge ability prophecy and therefore the divine origin of the T all of these great principles were demonstrated with the great miracles of the thing is it would be nice if Hashem would continuously demonstrate this in every generation after all don't we all say you know if only would God would make these miracles for us I would also believe but the says come on I can't do this in every generation at will every time a Russia says prove yourself I have to prove myself like the famous story you know if uh if Mozart's walking down the street and somebody says oh you're moar yeah well then compose a song you know bug off every every You Know M who doesn't believe in him who doesn't who doesn't acknowledge his talent he has to prove himself God doesn't have to prove himself to every so what did was because he's not going to make a mirica on every generation for every Russia or every heretic he commanded us that we should always make a reminder and a testimonial to what we saw and thereby transmitted to our children and our grandchildren and the Next Generation and therefore anything which commemorates The Exodus is fundamentally important therefore if you eat p and we warn you we'll just give you lashes but if you eates one is liable to early death has or if you don't bring any if you don't fulfill any MIT the there's no punishment unless you don't bring a p then why because these mitv are testimonials to all the most fundamental principles of the Tyra moreover the says Hashem says I never want you to forget it now I'm going to skip a line for a moment we should mention it in the morning we should mention it in the night like when we say in every night you have to remember every morning and if that's not enough if bringing a carbon p and not eating and remembering morning and night well you still might forget once a year leave your house and sit in a Suka for seven days to remember I took you out of Egypt and that's why there's so many Mitzvah and therefore when you make so that we never forget all of the great Miracles that are testimonials that God created the world and that he knows what's happening in the world and that he controls everything that's happening in the world and he has great ability and that he communicates with man but I left out one Mitzvah which commemorates The Exodus you know what it is and you should write it on every door poost because every time you walk out of a door right we we ready before I you see I tricked you before the share even started I got you to admit that you walk through doorways now don't tell me no I don't walk through doorways don't don't say I don't go through doorways I know you go through doorways every time you go through a doorway now many people like to kiss the Maza where'd you get that from where' you get that from cuz you see okay I'm not getting into this where do you get you should kiss the muza it's a nice thing to do very nice it's but you didn't do the Mitzvah you can't love the Mitzvah you don't do the Mitzvah you know what the Mitzvah is to look at the mza and to remember that it says in there God took us out of Egypt and therefore that that shows Hashem created the world and he knows what's happening in the world and he controls what's happening in the world and he has great ability if you don't do that stop kissing the mza what are you kissing you just kiss things you kissing the wall why why you kissing everything why don't you do the first do the Mitzvah do me a favor penalize yourself you're not going to kiss the mza until you do the Mitzvah people they jump they like jump through hoops they they do T some would you summer Sals would you say you have to say AA then every time no you don't have to say AA but you have not every single Mitzvah you do you make a but the Mitzvah is the main the main Mitzvah is to think about it so the ran says that you should write it on your door poost and remember that says R if somebody buys a Maza for a buck I guess they had better prices back then and they put it on their doorpost and their to its meaning you know what this person has already accomplished they've already acknowledged that God created the world and God knows what's happening in the world and he controls everything in the world and it he demonstrates that he believes in Prophecy he's already admitted and his belief in all aspects of the entire T he's showing that he believes that took us out of slavery so you know what you've done you've basically in one moment for a few bucks you put something on your door you thought for a few moments you've accomplished belief in all the basic tenants of Judaism do you do that or you just kiss the muza you don't even kiss the you kiss your hand why you kissing stop kissing your hand you love your hand so much why do you like your hand what what is it what do you have with your hand okay I'm done with the mza routine but the mitzvah of mza is to think about what it says BR the question why every every door post every room why not just when you walk into the house or cuz that you know how forgetful we are you know no some your wife asked you to do something so you forget what I reminded you yeah but that was 5 minutes ago I already forgot every door every doorpost and you walk right you walk through doorways just checking you walk through doorways you walk through fine that's the first part that's secondary we don't have a Mitzvah as a that's a second and ancillary benefit the main Mitzvah of mza is to remember that Hashem created the world he controls everything that happens in the world and he knows and he has ability fine that's the first step Second Step okay um the second step is you know after 120 one of the six big questions that a person will be asked isua did you wait the coming of mhia Okay so we've discussed this many times did you wait the coming of mhia it's one of the six big questions that means this must be a biggie this is not they're not asking you did you put Onin every day of course you need to they're not asking you um did you wear tius you need to they're very important but there are six basic fundamental questions are going to ask you one of them is did you await the coming of mhia so the question is really it's so important where does it say in thees that I need to await the coming of Messiah and not only where does it say that I have to wait the coming where does it even have to where does it even say I have to believe there is a mhia and it's one of the six main questions so the saer smack R of coril of France who was born in 128 student of of Paris he's also called his saer he wrote a saer on all the 63 mitz it was originally called but it was smaller than a saer called saer mitvah so they called it sa Mitzvah Katan he says the Mitzvah of belief in the coming of Messiah is in this week para where it says I am Hashem your God who took you out of the land of Egypt that's the Mitzvah to believe and to wait for the coming of mhia say wait a second that's a jump all it says is I am the Lord your God who took you out of Egypt how do you see from there that you have to believe in the coming of Messiah says the smack if the P says that took us out of then we likewise have to believe that the will take us out of G America it's the same Mitzvah in fact says the It also says in this we you should know today you should place on your heart is God above there's no one besides him there no one beside him part of that Mitzvah is to believe hasem created the world controls everything that happens in the world has knowledge and therefore just like we have to believe hasm took us out of Egypt you have to believe will take us out of gas so it's the first Mitzvah the T the first Mitzvah is to actively await the coming of Messiah you do that you're wait you're waiting for him okay now you ready for the Whopper I want to ask you a personal question do you walk through doorways raise your hand if you walk through doorways say okay you're still walking through the doorways and now when you walk through the doorways before you kiss the mza what are you going to do you're going to remember oh the mza reminds me that Hashem took us out of M that's the Mitzvah so I would argue something very compelling and simple every doorway you walk through you need to think this verifies Hashem to us Adam and therefore I believe Hashem will bring the G every doorway you walk through is an opportunity to await the coming of Messiah I want to ask you a personal question do you walk through doorways when you walk through doorways do you kiss the muuza stop kissing the muuza and before you do that think the following two things the mza says that Hashem took us out of MIM and the smack teaches that part of the Mitzvah of remembering hasem took us out of MIM is to await the coming of mhia so that means how many times a day are you going to be awaiting the coming of mashiah can I ask you a personal question how many doorways do you walk through every day probably a lot out of those I don't know 200 Doors that you walk through how many of them did you utilize to await the coming of Messiah say don't ask me today ask me tomorrow whoever the first three people to message me that they awaited the coming of Messiah at least 18 times in one day gets a free copy of the French Edition of the mystery and the Majesty you could choose French or Spanish okay a the first three people who messaged me that after that they walked through 18 doorways and each time you probably walk through at least a 100 doorways if not more raise your hand if you think you walk through more than a hundred doorways a day not all them true how many of you walk through door you see the guy on the Shir he just walked out he went I don't know where went he's wor he ready no don't go yet after the shear he a guy said he already did it three times okay so that this is my I don't know I I think it's a but it's very simple that means every time you put Onin you're supposed to remember oh hasem took us out of and just like he took he's going to redeem us but doorways it's like you know they're they're and opportunities okay fine I said this in a Shear recently and my friend R herb came over to me after the shear he says okay very nice but we in the M does it say Hashem took us out of it says it in the because the has four it doesn't say anything and so villain it says but guess what gladin it's a nice T that every Mitzvah that commemorates you should likewise remember is going to bring but it doesn't say in the mza that hasm took usim it's like yeah there goes my mzza contest right so I immediately I was in the B bust and Sh it was like uh 10 days ago or something and I took out a parish on the ran and I see this is a very big question because the ran does say that Hashem commanded us to wrap it on our arms and to write it on our doorposts so if the ran says the purpose of mza is to help remember then I'm correct because just like it's to help us remember it should likewise help us await and yearn for the G so I found in the in number three who's a Who who says he wrote a very concise commentary on the he says when the ran says that we should wrap it on our arms and re and repeat it and commemorate with p and to write on our doorpost when he says to write it on our doorpost it's lavka the other MIT but not M he didn't really mean mza mza does not commemorate when the raban re writes and you should write on the doorpost writing on the doorpost is loud so according to that my whole thing's down the tube not only when you walk through a doorways yeah you right if if we would end here so you wanted to know if you're we're going to end on time yes if we end now we would end end on time but you ask too many questions no I don't know if it's happening but it's not your fault I'm not going to blame this one on you well let's see maybe well do we have six people who didn't D in yeah okay so we we'll yeah we'll we'll hold everyone else hostage so um so says that when the ran says doorpost is not and thereby thereby when you walk through door there would be no inion of reme anticipating the Gula so in this P he quotes the say forah who Reinhard so was FL he's a for 1818 to 1894 the is a parish on the ran and he says something incredible he writes you know in look at number five the P says it should be a sign on your arm what's that referring to and a remembrance between your eyes what's that referring to so that the of should be in your mouth with the strong hand God took you out of Egypt what's the that if you wear the you'll remember and you'll speak about the events of the ran in this week's para the way I'm understanding it we know that is mish it's a repetition and a review of all the MIT in the previous books the thing is in this week's par we're introduced to the mitvah of now if Mish is a review presumably that means the mitah mza appeared before where where you remember mza could anybody tell me where in the T did mza appear before this week's par in the where where is mza told where does it say anything about mza the ran writes in this week's par that it could be when it says it was already said in the remember between your eyes remember what your eyes saw and understood where do we remember what our eyes saw that's in other words when it says in and a remembrance for what your eyes saw the remembrance is the mza that's how ran that's what the ran writes no he doesn't learn it's in other words it's amazing ran ran in this's par that maybe is going to but is talking about mza now in that case the P says in par that the purpose of is to be that's how the ran learns that the ran understands a that indeed Maza commemorates and in that case we have people walked in so I'm going to ask again to make sure does everyone who's in The Room walk through doorways yeah we all walk through doorways and when we walk through doorways according to ra it's to remember the events of and just like we remember the events we likewise utilize the opportunity to await the coming of mhia so that's the answer of the SAA very interesting who I don't think any of us would have read the PK that way but when you're asking on the ran right the ran in par says that when we write on the doorpost it's a way of remembering so we asked it doesn't say anything about in the but the raan is going who at the end of says the purpose of mza is to remember that's how the he disagrees with says ra didn't really mean and finally it's unbelievable the brisar himself ask this question in he asks on the ran in Ran what do you mean that one of the ways with which we remember is by being it does doesn't say a word about in the mza and in that case maybe just go kiss it you know kiss your heart out go kiss the mza because it doesn't say anything about that's the question of the brisar and he says two interesting answers it doesn't say anything about in the but there is a Mitzvah that the mza talks about you know what Mitzvah the mza what par are in the ma we said the first two sh and what mitvah then is written in the mza the Mitzvah ofin so in the mza it talks about the obligation to wearin and what's the function of wearing why do we wear you wear to remember so you could say of course M reminds us of because it it it obligates Us in the MIT of whose purpose is to remember you like that answer it's not it's like sort of a rhetorical question the brisk rub gives the answer that's the first [Music] answer the second answer is out of this world you know throughout sa for I never realized this when talks to CL he says listen up because the Lord your God every single time in it says speaks to it says says there's one exception Hashem El it's the only time in that M says listen up Hashem is our God not Hashem not M saying to K you know Hashem your God he's our God why does it say our God God what does our god mean our God means the god of the Jewish people he protects us he saves us anyone who dear lays a finger on the Jewish people is reduced to the ash heap of History the Roman Empire the Persian Empire the Greeks the Babylonians they all share something in common they started up with with us so they disappeared watch out watch out any nation of the world he he's our God the ream is our God you know what our God means says the ramban in this week's paraa you know by the way you might want to because you know I ask you a lot of personal questions today I want to ask you one more question who here says sh is Hashem we say it right sounds like something we say a lot it would be nice to know this is the only that we call him our God why let's look at the words of the ran take a look in number eight you need to contemplate the deviated here to say doesn't say why therefore does it say refers to the great miracles of I'm sure you all knew that because you probably say the just like you walk through doorways you probably also say the so obviously we all know the words hasem refer to the events of therefore says the brisar when the ran says in that by writing Aza and thinking about it it's a way of reminding oursel about and we asked where in the M does it say anything about there's this very obscure unfamiliar in the mza it says you know where in one word therefore it comes out even though says ra wrote it that actually maybe when you put Onin it's supposed to remind you about but not mza the says no also because the ran learns or the brisar says that the mza speaks about the MIT which is or another very compelling answer is that the says it's the only time it says refers to the events of and therefore every door way you walk through you should kiss it I don't really I have no problem if you want to kiss the you could kiss it but you should also be M the Mitzvah of remembering that hasem took us out of so you stop for a moment and you think took us out of that means Hashem created the world and he knows everything that's happening in the world he even knows what I'm thinking he even knows my motivations he even sees what I do in private and he controls everything that happens in the world and he has unlimited power and if you think that you've already acknowledged all the basic tenants of Judaism and what else should you think when you walk through a that just like hasem took us out of he's going to bring the G and if you do that 18 times in a day and you message me you're one of the first to message me you could get the French Edition right why not doesn't cost any money it's cheaper than going to the store um you could do it more than 18 times and even if you do it once a day it's a very great achievement but we say in the daving for your salvation we await the whole day so did you ever wonder what do you mean that we await the whole day how do you await mashiah the whole day it's not the whole day it's only when I'm ding no but you also walk through doorways and you walk through a lot of them the whole day you walk through doorways and every time you walk through a doorway you could utilize opportunity to remember that took us out of MIM which that itself is a great achievement because it acknowledges all the tenants of Judaism and once you're at it and theam will bring the G Shala so right after Tish the gives us this beautiful Mitzvah because now this week is shab and we anticipate the great consolation of the Jewish people that's what we're waiting for make sure you take advantage of all the doorways you walk through have a wonderful night yeah